He had begun to pull off his gloves, which were violently new, and to look encouragingly round the little garden.

As a "surrounding" I felt how I myself had already been taken in; I was a little fish in the stomach of a bigger one.

"I represent," our visitor continued, "a syndicate of influential journals, no less than thirty-seven, whose public--whose publics, I may say--are in peculiar sympathy with Mr.
Paraday's line of thought.

They would greatly appreciate any expression of his views on the subject of the art he so nobly exemplifies.

In addition to my connexion with the syndicate just mentioned I hold a particular commission from _The Tatler_, whose most prominent department, 'Smatter and Chatter'-- I dare say you've often enjoyed it--attracts such attention.